Currently held by Clint Zweifel (D), the State Treasurer position will be a seat without an incumbent in 2016. Term limits bar Zweifel from seeking re-election.

Wright's name has also surfaced as a candidate for Missouri State Auditor. He currently represents portions of Boone, Randolph, Howard, and Cooper counties.

Mentioned as a potential statewide candidate since his election to the statehouse in November 2012, Wright may be best known for his substantial campaign war chest, much of it self-financed. "The Yale-educated attorney spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money to defeat Republican Mitch Richards," political reporter Jason Rosenbaum noted in a story for St. Louis Public Radio about another seat Wright may consider: Missouri State Auditor in 2014.

But "Wright's ability to fund his own campaign could mute Schweich’s financial advantage," Rosenbaum explained.

The bribery scandal erupted after Wright's opponent in the Democratic primary for the 47th District statehouse seat, former Missouri State Representative and Moberly City Councilwoman Nancy Copenhaver, told this publication Wright and then-State Representative Mary Still offered her a significant financial payoff if she would exit the primary.

Wright won both the primary and general elections, reportedly spending the highest total ever for a Columbia-area State Rep. campaign. "Wright won a surprisingly competitive race during 2012 and did so while raising an impressive amount of money," the Missouri Times explains, in a top-ten list of Democrats best-suited to challenge Schweich.